Carton



July 2, 1935.

J. OREILLY CARTON Filed Nov. 12, 1934 Z-Sheets-Sheet 1 1a INVENTOR WE OfPAE/LL ATTORNEY- I I I y 1935- v J. OREILLY 2,006,475

' CARTON Filed Nov. 12, 1954 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR JOE, OPz/Lu 4664 (WWW ATTORN EY Patented July 2, 1935 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 12,006,475 CARTON Joe olteilly, Tacoma, Wash. Application November 12, 1934, Serial No. 752,613 7 Claims. (Cl. 229-52) being to provide a carton from a one-piece blank that is creased, folded and glued to form a convenient container for a plurality of bottles and having partially detached flaps extending from' its end walls formed with openings to receive the necks of adjacent bottles therethrough and arranged so that the flaps may be tucked in bespacers tween the bottles thereby to serve as cushioning to eliminate the possibility of breakage.

More specifically stated, the present invention resides in the formation of the flaps, in their combination and mode of use, as will hereinafter be described.

Still another object of the invention resides in the provision. of a container as above stated with handle-forming flaps of a novel character by which the carton may be carried. v

In accomplishing these and other objects of the invention, 1'. have provided the improved details of construction, the preferred forms of which are'illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wlfie in Fig.. 1 is-a perspective view of a carton embody- ,ing the'p'resent invention.

Fig. 2 is aperspective view of the same, shown partially opened. 2

Fig.3 is a cross-sectional view of the carton, particularly illustrating the disposition and use of the; cushioning flaps or tongues in a packed ar;

4 is a horizontal section of the carton in the plane of the top edge of the body walls.

Fig.5 is a view of the flattened blank from which the carton is made.

Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view of another form of carton for two rows of bottles.

Fig. '7 is a top view showing the disposition of the bottle spacing and cushioning flaps of this latter device.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view, illustrating the method offolding the flaps of the latter form of device.

Fig. 9 is a plan view of the spacing flap .as

blanked out prior to folding.

Fig. 10 is a sectional view of still another form of carton wherein the spacing flaps accommodate four bottles.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, first with reference to the device of Figs. 1 to 5, inelusivei designates the carton in its entirety, as shown 1 selves along the scoring 24 and 25 thus to in finished form in Fig. 1. This carton'is made from a single blank, b, as shown flattened in Fig. 5, and of rectangular form, horizontally creased, as designated by the parallel dotted lines 2 and 3, and vertically creased, as designated by the parallel dotted lines 4, 5, 6 and I, to define the opposite side panels 8 and 8a of the carton, and also to define the opposite end panels designated at 9 and 9a. Slits III, II and I2 are formed in the lower portion of the blank, continuing in alinement with the score lines 5, 6 and 1, respectively, from the horizontal scoring 3 through to the lower edge of the blank, thereby setting olf the independentflaps l3, l4, l5 and I6. Likewise, slits i1, i8 and I! are formed in the upper portion of the blank continuing in alinement with the score lines 5, 6 and 1, respectively, from the horizontal line of scoring 2 through to the top edge of the blank, thereby forming the separate flaps 20, 2|, 22 and 23. The flaps 20 and 22 are horizontally scored, as designated by the dotted lines 24 and 25, in lines parallel with the top edge of the blank and there is a short tongue 26 along the side edge of panel 8 defined by the score line 4 which latter is alined with the outer side edges of the panel above and below it.

In forming the carton from this particular blank, the blank is folded to provide a rectangular enclosure by bending it inwardly along each of the scored lines 4, 5, 6 and I, so that adjacent panels are disposed at angles of ninety degrees realtive to each other. The tongue 26 is underlapped and glued to the edge of panel 9:1, as seen in Fig. 4, then the flaps l4 and it are bent inwardly into the bottom opening and the flaps l3 and I5 are folded up to underlap them and glue is applied to the overlapped flaps to secure them together and thus to effectively and permanently close the lower end of the container.

The top edges of the flaps 2|) and 22 are provided, at opposite sides of the scored lines 24 and 25, with elongated, parallel slots or openings and 30' and 3|. and 3|, and the flaps '2! and 23' are each provided with an elongated slot or opening 32, with their inner ends located relatively close to the scoring line2; these latter slots being of a size to receive the neck portions of bottles therethrou gh.

Prior to folding and glueing' the carton, the panels 20' and 22 arefolded back upon themunderlap the outer edge portions with the body portions to givestrength and rigidity thereto, and thereby to bring the slots 30 and 30' into regplied to hold these portions in the folded relation.

The carton is designed to contain three bottles, designated at 40 and 40 and 40a, and when these are placed in the carton, as seen in Figs. 3 and 4, the flaps 2| and 23 are folded inwardly and then tucked in between the center and outside bottles as shown in Fig. 3, with the neck portions of the bottles extending through the slots or openings 32. Thus, these flaps retain the bottles in place and serve as cushioning spacers, whereby adjacent bottles are effectively prevented from bumping together and breakage is eliminated.

In Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 9, I have shown a form of carton designed to take two rows of bottles and wherein it is desirable to have spacers between the bottles of the adjacent rows. In this arrangement the flaps, designated at 2 la and 230., which correspond to the flaps 2| and 23 of the device of Fig. 3, are designed to be folded inwardly and tucked between the outer and central bottles andthey are in turn provided with partially detached flaps 50, connected to the body portion only by a narrow neck portion and this is scored for easy folding of the flap along a line 52 at its inner end and there is also a line of scoring 53 along a transverse line at right-angles to line 52. Each flap 50 comprises opposite side sections 50a and 50b separated by a central cut-out recess 55 lengthwise thereof, and there is an intermediate tongue 56 extending from the base of the main flap between the base ends of the two sections, 50a and 50b.

To fold this spacer flap 50, assuming it to be lying flat as in Fig. 9, it is folded on dotted line 52, by swinging part 50a downwardly and part 5012 upwardly so that the flap 50 is in a plane at right-angle to the body flap Zla. Then it is folded on line 53 to bring the main body of section 50b pointing in the direction of the loose end of flap Zla, as shown in Fig. 8. The flap 2la may then be tucked between adjacent bottles of two rows, as seen in Fig. 6, and the two sections of the flap 50 located between corresponding bottles of the two rows.

To retain the flap sections in this position when folded back on line 53, there is provided a projecting tip 60 back of which the edge of the flap at the base of recess 55 will engage when in the folded position of Fig. 8.

In Fig. 10 is another construction where the spacer flap has openings to accommodate two bottles, at each end of a row of four in a carton. This flap 65 has the two openings 56 and 67 and the partially detached tongue 69 left in forming the opening 61 is bent back and folded down as a spacer for the two bottles covered by the flap.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is- 1. A carton forming a compartment for a plurality of bottles, or the like, and having an elonistration, likewise to bring the slots 3| and 3! .into registration. Then wire stitches 35 are apgated flap continuing from a wall thereof, adapted to be tucked between the overlapped and next adjacent bottle as a cushioning spacer therefor, and having an opening for receiving therethrough the neck portion 'of the bottle which it overlies.

2. A carton of the character described having opposite side and end walls forming a compartment for containing a plurality of bottles in sideby-side relation, and flaps continuing from opposite walls of the carton adapted to be folded inwardly and to be tucked at their ends between the outer and next adjacent bottles as cushioning spacers, and said flaps having openings therein for receiving the neck portions of the outer bottles therethrough.

3. A carton of the character described comprising opposite side and end walls forming a compartment for containing a plurality of bottles in parallel rows, opposite end walls of the compartment being extended to form flaps adapted to be folded over the outer bottles and to be tucked between them and those adjacent thereto, said opposite side walls being extended and formed with hand hold openings, and said end wall flaps having openings therein to receive therethrough the neck portions of the bottles over which they are folded.

4. A carton of the character described comprising walls forming an enclosure for bottles or the like and having a flap continuing from a wall and adapted to be folded over the bottles adjacent the Wall and to be tucked between them and those next adjacent thereto as a cushion spacer; said flap having a partially detached tab adapted to be disposed transversely of the said flap as a cushioning spacer for adjacent bottles at the same side of the flap.

5. A carton of the character described, comprising walls forming an enclosure for bottles, or the like, arranged in rows and having an elongated fiap continuing from one wall, adapted to be folded over the bottles adjacent the wall and to be tucked downwardly between them and those next adjacent thereto as a cushioning spacer, and having an opening for passage of the necks of the bottles which the flap overlies, and a cutout tab partially detached from the flap and disposed transversely of and extended at opposite sides of the spacing portion of the flap to serve as a cushioning spacer for bottles located at opposite sides of the flap.

6. A device as in claim 5, wherein the opening in the flap for passage of the necks of the overlapped bottles is formed by the cutting and folding of the partially detached tab.

7. A carton forming an enclosure for a plurality of bottles, and having a flap continuing from a wall thereof and adapted to overlap bottles adjacent the Wall, and having openings therethrough for receiving the necks of the bottles, and having a partially detached tab serving as a cushioning spacer between bottles overlapped by the flap; said partially detached tab forming one of the openings for reception of the bottle necks.

JOE OREILLY. 

